“Contrary to Thanksgiving mythology, two Penobscot Nation citizens and their collaborator/co-writer (Dawn Neptune Adams, Maulian Dana, with Adam Mazo) explain in the Guardian how the settler government actually offered cash for dead Native American children:

According to our research, there were at least 69 government-issued scalp edicts across the Dawnland from 1675 to 1760, and at least 50 scalp edicts issued elsewhere in the United States until 1885. The proclamations targeted specific tribes by name – and occasionally marked specific tribes safe because they were “allies” of the authorities. But neither scalpers nor authorities had much way of knowing the tribal affiliations of the people whose scalps they took, so for centuries bounties were a license to kill all Indigenous people.”

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